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Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This was one of the first (and last) university-built and operated nuclear reactors.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.